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Missouri Fruit Notes 
Inter-cropping Strawberries. — In 
“Hope Farm Notes” we are told of the 
heavy labor that resulted from the at¬ 
tempt to grow a foreign crop between 
the strawberry rows. There being no 
room to run the cultivator, a thick growth 
of crab grass came tip and was stimu¬ 
lated by a rainy spell. After the removal 
of the foreign crop it was necessary to 
employ hand weeding to clear the berry 
plants of the suffocating embrace of the 
crowding grass. I have better success to 
report. I was well aware that growing 
a crop between strawberry rows was de¬ 
cidedly hazardous, and I had never before 
attempted it, but this time more space 
was badly needed for cabbage plants, and 
'vo determined to try it. The berry rows 
were only feet apart, and with cab¬ 
bage plants in the middle the rows shrunk 
to one and three-fourths. Still, we were 
able to use the horse while the plants 
were quite small. Ultimately we had to 
take to the hoes. Everything went well 
until the cabbage began to mature, and 
there was much tramping up and down 
the rows to gather and carry out. At the 
same time rainfall ceased, and drouthy 
weather set in. Then a period ensued 
that was very trying on the ‘berry plants. 
A few died, and the living ones produced 
few runners. Some grass and weeds made 
their appearance, and the rush of S"m- 
mer work saved them from the hoe. The 
cabbage was composed of both early and 
late kinds and matured through a long 
season. In fact, there, are a few heads 
there yet In September all the field hut 
a fraction was hoed over, and then the 
rain finally came, and the plants were 
safe. When we come to figure up results 
we fiud the experiment a success f’-em 
the standpoint of profit. There was very 
little over a third of au acre, and the cab¬ 
bage sold totaled $200. In addition, the 
old stalks sprouted out a large crop of 
leaves and loose heads formed, that we 
have been carrying out for the cows, 
hogs and poultry during weeks, and they 
are net yet done. To sunt up the condi¬ 
tion of the strawberry plants, we find 
that there is much irregularity in the 
stand of runners, and that damage _ in¬ 
flicted on them by combining crops might 
run as high as 30 per cent, but certainly 
no higher. But to offset this we have 
$200 worth of cabbage, and that is more 
than $100 above what we could legiti¬ 
mately expect from 30 per cent of the 
bei”\v crop. 
Fixe Persimmons.— Last week I had 
the good fortune to be able to visit a per¬ 
simmon tree that I knew of 20 years ago. 
when I lived nearer it. It was a full 12 
inches in diameter, and its leafless 
branches were well filled with fruit that 
had been ripening for some time. I found 
these persimmons far finer than I had 
; magined. They were simply delicious, 
f ar excelling the commercial date and fig. 
They were conical in shape,_ with few 
seeds, some specimens # containing only 
one, and very large in size. To be exact 
I measured one and found it five inches 
in circumference. It is inexplicable why 
such very .superior specimens of this fruit 
as was in this tree are not propagated aud 
found in every fruit tree collection. Per¬ 
simmon trees arc annual hearers, hardy 
and exempt from insect and fungus, aud 
living to great ages. Why do not nur¬ 
series list them and the public buy them? 
The season for ripening runs all the way 
from August to Christmas. I have two 
named varieties, but tlio wild tree visited 
easily excels them in the quality of its 
fruit, but its season is a month later. 
L. R. JOHNSON. 
Cape Girardeau Co., Md. 
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Winter Storage of Dahlias and Cannas 
Will you give, the safe way to winter 
Dahlia and Canna roots, the drying off 
laud whether to hang up in bag or on 
rel'ar floor In box? My cellar has no heat 
jand a dirt bottom. o. d. v. 
Lift the Dahlias as soon as the plants 
( have been killed by frost. Itemove all 
'of the soil possible from them, and let 
them dry in the open air. preferably in 
I the shade, for an hour or two. The tops 
should be cut off, leaving about four 
inches of the stem, which will dry and 
wither; it is wise to stand the roots with 
the stems down while drying, as sappy 
moisture collects in the hollow stems, and 
this is likely to induce rot. Store in the 
cellar or any other cool place, secure from 
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If the cellar is very dry, or not absolutely 
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earth sifted over them to prevent drying 
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